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Why developers choose Transcoding SDK
Building a video transcoding pipeline means juggling dozens of codec parameters, container formats, device profiles, and broadcast standards. Get any of them wrong and you're dealing with non-compliant output, device failures, or costly rework.
MainConcept Transcoding SDK removes that complexity. Instead of managing low-level encoder settings, you work with ready-to-use profiles for the formats and devices that matter: broadcast standards like AS-11 UK DPP and XAVC, adaptive streaming for HLS and MPEG-DASH, and professional camera formats from Sony and Panasonic. The SDK handles codec configuration, multiplexing, and compliance automatically.
You also get the full power of MainConcept's industry-leading codec technology built in. Use SABET™ to encode multiple adaptive bitrate streams from a single source without sacrificing quality. Apply Constant Target Quality (CTQ) for content-aware HEVC encoding that prioritizes how your video actually looks to viewers. And get visibility into output quality with vScore, MainConcept's suite of video quality metrics embedded directly in the AVC and HEVC encoders.
The result: your team ships faster, your output is reliable across devices, and you're not locked into a patchwork of individual codec libraries.
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Product Highlights
Processing filters and HDR conversion
Includes ready-to-use video and audio filters for a variety of production environments and occasions. For easy integration, it also lets you use your own filters via the Transcoding SDK Filter API. For finishing, it includes HDR conversion to multiple formats as well as the ability to create SDR content compliant with non-HDR devices.
Includes ready-to-use video and audio filters for a variety of production environments and occasions. For easy integration, it also lets you use your own filters via the Transcoding SDK Filter API. For finishing, it includes HDR conversion to multiple formats as well as the ability to create SDR content compliant with non-HDR devices.
Specifications
Core API
- Transcoding process control
- Management of processing modules
- Utility functions
- Built-in processing modules
- DirectShow import (Windows)
- QuickTime import (Windows & macOS)
- GStreamer import (Windows & Linux)
- MPEG-1/2, MPEG-4 Part 2, VC-1, HEVC/H.265 & AVC/H.264
- DV/DVCPRO, JPEG 2000
- Apple ProRes
- Avid DNxHD/DNxHR
- PCM/LPCM
- MPEG Layer 1/2 Audio
- AAC, HE-AAC
- WMA
- AMR
- Raw DV
Video output formats
- HEVC/H.265 8- and 10-bit (incl. IQSV & NVENC)
- AVC/H.264 8- and 10-bit (incl. IQSV & NVENC)
- MPEG-1/2
- DV/DVCPRO 25/50/100 (HD)
- VC-1
- JPEG 2000
- MPEG-4 Part 2
- RAW/YUV
- Elementary Streams
- MPEG-2 Program Stream
- MPEG-2 Transport Stream
- MP4
- 3GP
- F4V
- ASF
- DV
- DIF
- MJ2
- MXF
- RAW
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Available Platforms
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Windows
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Linux
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macOS
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macOS
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| HEVC/H.265 | ||||||
| HEVC/H.265 SABET | ||||||
| AVC/H.264 | ||||||
| AVC/H.264 Broadcast | ||||||
| MPEG 1/2 | ||||||
| VC-1 | ||||||
| MPEG-4 Part 2 / H.263 | ||||||
| DVCPRO 25/50/HD | ||||||
| JPEG 2000 |
Constant Target Quality (CTQ) encoding
Achieve consistent visual quality with content-aware rate control. CTQ automatically optimizes bitrate and encoding parameters to simplify configuration while delivering efficient, real-time encoding.
Embedded Quality Control with vScore
Measure and optimize video quality directly within the encoding workflow using integrated PSNR, VMAF, and AI-powered VMAF-E analysis, without needing separate quality assessment tools.
Automated encoding parameters
Integrated codecs, production-ready presets, and a unified transcoding layer let developers deploy file-based transcoding workflows faster, without managing complex codec and multiplexer settings
Processing filters and HDR conversion
Enhance, transform, and prepare content for delivery with integrated video processing filters, scaling, deinterlacing, color conversion, and HDR workflow support.
Hardware-Accelerated Encoding
Increase throughput and reduce infrastructure costs with Intel and NVIDIA hardware acceleration integrated into your transcoding workflows.
Pre-defined AS-11 UK DPP presets
Generate AS-11 UK DPP-compliant SD and HD broadcast deliverables, including metadata processing, MXF packaging, and XML sidecar file support.
MPEG-DASH & HLS VOD content creation
Prepare adaptive bitrate streaming content for HLS and DASH workflows, including encoding, packaging, and manifest generation in resolutions up to 8K and with AAC, AC-3 and E-AC-3 audio.
Products & Components
Transcoding SDK Base Package
Contains the actual Transcoding Core and all import modules for ingesting files as well as all MainConcept audio/video decoders and demultiplexers needed to import and decode the files. Transcoding Core:
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HEVC/H.265 Encoder Package
| Set of flexible HEVC Main and Main 10 transcoding profiles up to 12K, incl. Blu-ray UHD, DASH-265 and Apple HLS HEVC. Includes HEVC/H.265 accelerated GPU encoding by using Intel’s Quick Sync Video and NVIDIA NVENC as well as MainConcept Hybrid GPU encoding technology. |
HEVC/H.265 SABET Encoder Package
| Using Smart Adaptive Bitrate Encoding Technology that enables efficient accelerated encoding across HEVC/H.265 profiles of up to 10 output streams from a single source while maintaining equal high quality across all levels within an adaptive stream set. Includes HEVC/H.265 accelerated GPU encoding by using Intel’s Quick Sync Video and NVIDIA NVENC as well as MainConcept Hybrid GPU encoding technology. |
AVC/H.264 Encoder Package
| Numerous AVC/H.264 8-bit 4:2:0 transcoding profiles for many popular formats and devices, such as Adobe Flash, Apple HLS, Blu-ray, AVCHD, Silverlight, HTML5 and many Sony as well as Apple devices. Includes AVC/H.264 accelerated GPU encoding by using IntelQuick Sync Video and NVIDIA NVENC technology. |
AVC/H.264 Broadcast Encoder Package
| Extended AVC/H.264 transcoding profiles up to 10-bit High 4:2:2, incl. support for Panasonic P2 AVC-Intra / LongG and Sony XAVC professional camcorders, and the adaptive streaming format DASH-264. Includes AVC/H.264 accelerated GPU encoding by using Intel Quick Sync Video and NVIDIA NVENC technology. |
MPEG-1/2 Encoder Package
| Numerous MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 transcoding profiles for many popular formats and devices, such as DVD, Blu-ray, Digital TV, and many professional camcorders from the Sony XDCAM portfolio up to 10-bit 4:2:2. |
DVCPRO 25/50/HD Encoder Package
| DV, DVCPRO 25, 50 and 100 content creation, including Panasonic P2 DVCPRO HD and Sony DVCAM professional camcorder support. |
JPEG 2000 Encoder Package
| DCI compliant JPEG2000 stream generation ready for immediate Digital Cinema Packaging. |
MPEG-4 Part 2/H.263 Encoder Package
| MPEG-4 Part 2/H.263 transcoding profiles for creating streams compliant with older generation portable devices, such as Apple iPod, Sony PSP and many cell phones and tablets. |
VC-1 Encoder Package
| Ready-to-use VC-1 profiles for creating Windows Media, Silverlight and Blu-ray compliant streams. |
